Blood-Spitting Manual

City Lord Tu Hai secretly sought an audience with the true guardian of the seal... Old Chessman.

He brought up a match of chess.

Yet Old Chessman, ever faithful to his duty, refused.

Though outsiders were forbidden from entering at will, City Lord Tu Hai came up with a method: setting out chess problems. He asked Old Chessman to lay out three unsolvable secret endgames he had studied for thousands of years, then pass them to Yue Yang to solve. He also sent his steward, Jiao Shi, to ask Yue Yang to set up chess problems and personally deliver them to Old Chessman for mutual solving.

He believed that through such long-distance games, the two would surely become friends despite their age difference.

And for himself, the one who had brought them together, that could not have been better.

Sure enough, both sides tacitly accepted his proposal... Old Chessman laid out three unsolvable secret endgames for Yue Yang, while Steward Jiao Shi, sent to Yue Yang, returned with ten chess problems.

After receiving the chessboards, both sides sank into deep thought.

"Too difficult. Move one hair and the whole body shifts; there is nowhere one can place a piece." That night, City Lord Tu Hai stayed awake studying them. He also invited every master of Sunlit City's chess world to solve them, only to tragically discover that whether it was the three unsolvable secret endgames set by Old Chessman or the ten ultimate chess problems sent back by the Third Young Master, no one could place a single piece upon them.

"Placing a piece means sealing off your own path. It is fine if you do not play, but the moment you do, you die." Several chess masters with considerable fame in Sunlit City were so frustrated they were nearly